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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LLEWELLYN E. JONES, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,096, dated February27, 1883. Application filed December 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, LLEWELLYN E. JONES, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga and State of New York, a citizen of the United States, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements ip Hames, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, in which is shown a longitudinal section of the upper part of ahame.

My invention relates to that kind of hames known to the trade asiron-bound wooden hames, or hames in which the wood is surrounded by astrap of iron.

It consists in fitting the iron around the edge of the wooden body ofthe heme without welding the ends of the iron together, but simplylapping oneend over the other and holding them together by a, rivetthrough them and through the hame, a recess being provided in the woodenbody, on one edge, to receive one end of the iron, and thus diminish theprojection of the lap-joint outwardly.

It is constructed as follows:

A is the wooden body of the hame, constructed of the usual form andsize, except that it has the recess D upon one edge, usually upon theback of the heme, near or adjacent to the upper end. I generally makethis recess of the same depth as the thickness of the iron used aroundthe hame.

B is the binding-iron, bent to the proper shape to fit around the bodyA, and of such length that it will surround the body, and the two ends 0F will overlap one over the other, as shown in the drawing, the end 0lying in the recess and the end F lapping over upon the end 0.

E is a rivet through the lap, the body A, and iron B, opposite to thelap, to hold all of the parts together securely. By means of the recessD the outward projection of the lap-joint is diminished. By this mode ofconstruction the binding-iron B can be fitted to the wood easier,quicker, and with greater certainty of a perfect fit than where the endsof the iron are welded together before being placed around the wood. Iusually drill the holes for the rivet E'after the iron has beenperfectly fitted around the wood A, and the insertion of the rivetsecures the whole together in a most perfect manner. The recess D can bemade of less depth than the thickness of the iron, or entirely dispensedwith, if desired, the lap-joint being retained, however.

The drawingshows only a portion of the hame covering my invention, thebalance being of any ordinary construction..

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hame bound with a continuous strap of iron, one end of which isembedded in a recess in the hame, the other overlapping the embeddedcud, and secured in place by a rivet or bolt passing through the endsand into the haine, all substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of October,1882.

LLEWELLYN E. JONES.

In presence of- O. W. SMITH, T. T. BREWSTER, Jr.

